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This book is published under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The editors present essential methods and tools to support a holistic approach to the challenge of system upgrades and innovation in the context of high-value products and services. The approach presented here is based on three main pillars: an adaptation mechanism based on a broad understanding of system dependencies; efficient use of system knowledge through involvement of actors throughout the process; and technological solutions to enable efficient actor communication and information handling. The book provides readers with a better understanding of the factors that influence decisions, and put forward solutions to facilitate the rapid...
This book discusses the latest advances in people-centered design, operation, and management of broadly defined advanced manufacturing systems and processes. It reports on human factors issues related to various research areas such as intelligent manufacturing technologies, web-based manufacturing services, digital manufacturing worlds, and manufacturing knowledge support systems, as well as other contemporary manufacturing environments. The book covers an extensive range of applications of human factors in the manufacturing industry: from work design, supply chains, evaluation of work systems, and social and organization design, to manufacturing systems, simulation and visualization, automa...
Successful interaction with products, tools and technologies depends on usable designs and accommodating the needs of potential users without requiring costly training. In this context, this book is concerned with emerging ergonomics in design concepts, theories and applications of human factors knowledge focusing on the discovery, design and understanding of human interaction and usability issues with products and systems for their improvement. This book will be of special value to a large variety of professionals, researchers and students in the broad field of human modeling and performance who are interested in feedback of devices’ interfaces (visual and haptic), user-centered design, and design for special populations, particularly the elderly. We hope this book is informative, but even more - that it is thought provoking. We hope it inspires, leading the reader to contemplate other questions, applications, and potential solutions in creating good designs for all.
Currently people deal with various entities (such as hardware, software, buildings, spaces, communities and other people), to meet specific goals while going about their everyday activities in work and leisure environments. These entities have become more and more complex and incorporate functions that hitherto had never been allocated such as automation, use in virtual environments, connectivity, personalization, mobility and friendliness. This book contributes to the analysis of human-system interactions from the perspective of ergonomics, regardless of how simple or complex they are, while incorporating the needs of users and workers in a healthy safe, efficient and enjoyable manner. This...
«Chi ha amato la trilogia di Stieg Larsson apprezzerà gli scenari di Östlundh e quella suspence capace di far riflettere sull’origine della ferocia umana». Il Venerdì di Repubblica «Un entusiasmante thriller che conferma la tradizione letteraria scandinava di utilizzare il crimine per affondare le mani fino alle radici delle questioni sociali». Publisher’s Weekly
En ambulanshelikopter flyger över Östersjön med kriminalpolisen Fredrik Broman. Han har en svår skallskada och ingen vet om han kommer att klara sig. Tre veckor tidigare har två människor hittats mördade på en gård i Levide. En kvinna, dödad med ett enda hugg. En man, massakrerad till oigenkännlighet. När de hittas på den blodiga stavparketten i det exklusiva vardagsrummet har de redan varit döda i två dagar.Huset ägare, Arvid Traneus, har nyligen kommit hem efter flera år som storföretagskonsult i Japan. Polisen utgår först från att Arvid är den slaktade mannen. Kvinnan vid hans sida har ju identifieratrs som frun i huset.Men när det visar sig att den döde mannen int...